Here's the compiled version of the PageMaker 5.0 Script Sender described in the Aldus Magazine column "Son of Total Control" (July/August, 1993). You can use this floating palette to send commands and queries to PageMaker via DDE--and receive PageMaker's responses via the same channel.
To use this utility, you'll need to put three Visual Basic support files (VBRUN200.DLL, VER.DLL, and DDEML.DLL) in your ~\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory). If you have Visual Basic, these files are already there, and you don't need to do anything. If you don't have Visual Basic, download the file VBSTUFF.ZIP from the Aldus Forum on Compuserve--it contains the three files.